Martin Schulze: > I believe there are security concerns. Via rwho protocol your machine > distributes information on who is logged in. So you are able to play > big brother and generate personal profiles for instance.
According to the man page: Rwhod operates as both a producer and consumer of status information. As a producer of information it periodically queries the state of the system and constructs status messages which are broadcast on a network. As a consumer of information, it listens for other rwhod servers' status mes sages, validating them, then recording them in a collection of files lo cated in the directory /var/spool/rwho. Since broadcast packets shouldn't leave your local network, I don't think that anyone in the outside world can listen in on the rwho messages, so I _think_ it's safe for use if you trust all the hosts on your subnet. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .